Sep 25
What the hell. The NYPD has released statistics that imply, basically, that Apple product theft makes up 14 percent of all reported crime in the city. It’s absurd and sad and sort of predictable but mostly just the sad and absurd. More »
Sep 23
If you thought bath salts were bad, you should know about Krokodil. Gaining popularity in Siberia (at least as off 2011) Krokodil is a crazy, toxic mixture of eye drops, caffeine, and gasoline, that’s cooked and injected. Yeah. You want to know more? Of course you do, and that’s where Krokodil Tears comes in. More »
Sep 23
Get ready to welcome the newest addition to that long list of weird gadgets you really couldn’t possibly need, FireWood Pocket is here. Because who doesn’t want a keychain that emulates a lone, flaming piece of firewood? More »
Sep 17
What Happens When You Tattoo a Website Ad on Your Face—And That Website Goes Out of Business [Wtf]
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Back in the halcyon days of the dotcom boom, we did a lot of crazy things. We spent millions of dollars on extravagant nerd parties. We lavished mountains of funding and cocaine on startups selling diapers to puppies. And, eventually, we skinvertised ads on the backs and arms and faces of human beings. And then those people had to go on living their lives. More »
Sep 17
This is, apparently, a machine for massaging and/or washing breasts. And also possible proof that SkyMall started as a 1930s catalog of erotic housewares. More »
Sep 14
Dr. Pepper Facebook Ad Sparks the Most Surreal Creationist Debate You’ve Ever Seen [WTFriday]
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So this is a new one. Dr. Pepper made an aggressively silly ad about the “Evolution of Flavor.” It shows an early-evolution man finding a can of Dr. Pepper, and BOOM, full-fledged homo sapiens. Funny! And again, willfully goofy. And then it started a culture war. More »
Sep 13
Well this thing is weird, but then again there is no shortage of strange on Etsy. If you have $8,000 burning a hole in your pocket, please consider the Deep Sea Angler Fish lamp. More »
Sep 12
Remember the iPad event this spring, when the “Resolutionary” display made everyone projectile vomit into each other’s mouths and burst into flames, falling wildly into a pit of acid and shame? Good. Here’s the next step in Apple’s hellward ad copy spiral: Renanoed. More »
Sep 12
In a money-printing racket, Apple is charging 30 bucks for the new ‘Lightning to 30-pin’ adapter and 40 bucks for a 0.2m cable version of the adapter. Anyone who has an old iPhone accessory is probably going to need one of these. And oh, it doesn’t ship until October. More »
Sep 11
The Recording Industry’s Crusade Against Regular People Validated By $222,000 Appeal [Piracy]
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Today an appeals court helped the RIAA extort $222,000 from Jammie Thomas-Rasset for distributing 24 songs on the internet. The original verdict called for a preposterous penalty of $1.92 million. Sure, this new amount of just under $9,000 a song is lower, but ugh, it’s still absurd and horrible. More »
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